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One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.

The mysterious Firstborn have long sought to stop the advance of human civilization. This time, they have sent a "Q-bomb" speeding toward Earth--a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, let alone stop.

The Firstborn have returned Bisesa Dutt to the Earth of 2037, where scientists have discovered an anomaly in the sun's core that reveals a chilling alien plan to destroy Earth's life through radiation.

Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity watches, waiting.

A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart

Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick’s origin story.

An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel

A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the world is ruled by robots and humans are vermin. When timelines cross, the world as we know it bends . . .

When fourteen-year-old Matt Collier, a die-hard New York Yankee fan, gets a chance to time travel to any baseball game in history, he becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series.

Dougless Montgomery sends out a heartfelt plea to find someone who will love her for who she is. Ask and ye shall receive--16th-century knight Nicholas Stafford appears, bringing a love that defies time.

When her plane crashes into the ocean, CC's life changes forever. She awakens, bewildered, to find herself in a legendary time and place ruled by magic--and in the body of the mythic mermaid.

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful.